Toby wakes and discovers he is a puppy once again, snuggled up with seven puppies and a strange dog who appears to be his mother. Toby is confused because he can still remember Spike, his pack, and Senora. This time, however, instead of being outside, his den is on a concrete floor inside a cage. A man comes by to check on them and give the mother food once a day, but he does not interact with the dogs the way Bobby or Carlos did.

A few days later, Toby and his new siblings are taken to the yard and given bowls of food to eat. Toby notices a gate and remembers how his first mother used her mouth to open the gate at Senora’s. He imitates this action and escapes from the yard. He heads to a road where he can smell good things and becomes distracted by a winged bug. A man in a truck stops and scoops him up, taking him in his truck. Toby is excited to be a front-seat dog, but then the man stops at a building and leaves Toby in the truck with the windows rolled up. It quickly becomes hot, and Toby becomes tired.